“Becoming a Better Man”

Estrogenization of Man: Is Today’s Man Becoming the New Woman?

As women seek lasting beauty and career advancement through breast enhancements, fuller lips, bio-identical hormone replacement, cosmetic surgery and botox injections, men are ostracized for any measure that will boost sports performance, improve virility or physical appearance. Professional athletes, for example, taking legal testosterone precursors may be asked to testify in front of the Unit...

Man better man: the politics of disappearance.

The discourses of Antillanité and Créolité are both based on the absence of women. This is more important in the discourse of Créolité since it silences the grandmothers, great aunts and village midwives who are the transmitters of folk tales, folk medicines and oral culture. In the struggle for recognition between Caribbean males and western males folk medicine may be too closely associated wi...

Becoming Better, Faster, Cheaper, and Happier Cio Priorities

In today’s ever more competitive world, boards of directors and executives demand that CIOs and their teams deliver “more with less.” Studies show, without any real surprise, that there is no onesize-fits-all method to suit all software initiatives, and that a practice-based approach with some light but effective degree of order and governance is the goal of most software-development department...

Dynamics of diversity: becoming better nurses through diversity awareness.

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...